noforgiveness Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Hello just curious what everyone does as a morning before work routine with their spouses. Our routine is always the same. I get the kids up and off and then back into bed for a half hour cuddle or sex time with hubby. Then I go make the coffee why he showers. He comes doew gets coffee and out he goes while i go up for my shower. Our times to be up fortunately coincide wonderfully. If your spouse had to be up MUCH earlier than you would you get up with them? I know someone who actually gets up at 4 am with her boyfrind to help him get ready for work and then she goes back to bed till it's time for her to get ready for work. I think that's crazy but am curious if that's just me. I just think a grown man or woman is capable of getting themselves off to work in the morning. What is your morning ritual?
Touche Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Mine's kind of similar. Get up, get my son up, go down and get my son's breakfast and lunch ready for him to take with him. Drive him down to the bus stop. Come back. Make H and I coffee. Bring our coffee up to bed...turn on morning show, turn on LS ( ) Cuddle, fool around a little sometimes until he has to go shower. That's pretty much it. After H leaves I start my chores in between LS that is! Sheesh..I need to break my addiction on here!
My Fair Katie Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 6:00 am: Larger collie mix dog has itch on ear, while scratching his tags jingle. My Fair Katie curses, Her Fair Husband b!tches. 6:15 am: Little shiba inu mix dog decides to play with tug toy, tags jingle. Her Fair Husband groans "It's your turn to let them out." My Fair Katie protests, "It's always my turn." Her Fair Husband answers, "You wanted them!" My Fair Katie has no argument, Her Fair Husband is right. She still doesn't let them out. 6:30 am: My Fair Katie reaches over the bed and unsnaps each dog's collars and snuggles back in with husband, proud of her intelligence and problem-solving abilities until Her Fair Husband asks, "Why didn't you do that at 6:00?" D'oh! 7:00 am: It starts getting chilly so Her Fair Husband gets up to pee. This makes My Fair Katie also have to pee, she waits and runs in after him cursing the cold tiles. 7:30 am: Let's face it, we're up, may as well have sex. After sex: Her Fair Husband showers while My Fair Katie tries for a few more fleeting moments of sleep, then gives up puts on a robe and lets the dogs out. My Fair Katie showers. They go their seperate ways and meet up again at lunch.
IpAncA Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Usually he gets up first and then does his thing and then I wake up either by him or naturally. I don't make it a habit to get up with him during the weekdays but sometimes I do if I can't sleep or work early. He's capable of getting himself ready. I'm NOT a morning person so my idea of getting up with him a 6:30 is not my idea of fun. Especially if I don't have to be to work until 10 or 10:30. I perfer to lay in bed and watch tv or better yet, sleep. Then when he leaves I force myself up and get ready myself. I know it sounds like we don't have any quality time in the morning but we do later in the evenings and on the weekends because we both don't work then so it makes it easier.
Ripples Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Guys, I'm really jealous of the 'together' stuff you do in the mornings! Morning for us are always a bit of a rush. I get up first. I start work earlier and have further to go than SO, so leave way before him. He'll get up and make the tea while I'm in the shower, I'll come down for the tea. We mumble at each other, kiss goodbye, I go, he goes back to bed.
Touche Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Guys, I'm really jealous of the 'together' stuff you do in the mornings! Morning for us are always a bit of a rush. I get up first. I start work earlier and have further to go than SO, so leave way before him. He'll get up and make the tea while I'm in the shower, I'll come down for the tea. We mumble at each other, kiss goodbye, I go, he goes back to bed. Well, when I was working my routine was more like yours and your SO's..no time together in the morning at all. When I go back to work next year it will be back to the morning rush.
Curmudgeon Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 I set up the coffee pot so the coffee is finished brewing at 5:30 A.M. when my alarm goes off. I then read the paper, do the crossword, have some breakfast, shower, shave and leave for work at 7:30. I walk since it's only a mile and a quarter from home and am there by 8:00 or five or 10 minutes earlier. My wife is retired but she usually gets up at 6:00 then joins me for coffee. We'll chat then both read the paper. When I leave she sees me to the door and we kiss goodbye. Weekends aren't much different in terms of rising times.
Storyrider Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 I hate my weekday mornings. 1. 6:00 AM wake up and stumble into the shower. 2. 6:15 AM stumble out again and search through baskets of unfolded, wrinkled clothes for something for myself and kids to wear. (Who is it that was supposed to fold the laundry? Oh yeah, me.) Spray clothes with Downy Wrinkle Releaser. If you hate ironing, you must get it. 3. 6:30 Kids alarm rings. They come out whining and stumbling. 4. 6:40-7:15 Much yelling and nagging for kids to hurry while swigging coffee and slapping cream cheese on bread for kids' breakfast, PB for lunch. Do kids hair. More whining and yelling. 5. 7:30 Shove kids, backpacks, lunchboxes, coats, mittens and to go breakfast into car. Sometimes forget shoes. 6. Mad thirty minute drive to make it to school. Feed kids breakfast in car. Handing out sandwiches very dodgy on highway. Almost every morning we barely make it on time or are downright late. 7. Spend the rest of the day recovering. Too tired to do laundry.
Touche Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 HOLY MOLY! I laughed the whole way through your post Story. Ha ha! I gave the "cleaned up"version of what I go through with my son in the morning. At least yours come stumbling out of their rooms on their OWN. I'm my son's alarm clock and my "snooze button" gets used a LOT..here's out it goes. Son: Just one more minute PLEASE, Mom! Me: NO, NOW! Son: But I have to stretch for awhile. Me: Well stretch while you're getting dressed. Son: I have to get used to the light before I get up or I'll fall And on and on and on and on and on and on it goes! Sheesh! Ugh..hate that morning routine!
Storyrider Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 HOLY MOLY! I laughed the whole way through your post Story. Ha ha! I gave the "cleaned up"version of what I go through with my son in the morning. At least yours come stumbling out of their rooms on their OWN. I'm my son's alarm clock and my "snooze button" gets used a LOT..here's out it goes. Son: Just one more minute PLEASE, Mom! Me: NO, NOW! Son: But I have to stretch for awhile. Me: Well stretch while you're getting dressed. Son: I have to get used to the light before I get up or I'll fall And on and on and on and on and on and on it goes! Sheesh! Ugh..hate that morning routine! Haha "I have to get used to the light." That's a good one. They are very delicate sometimes, aren't they. Very fragile. I have seen my daughter do full speed laps around the perimeter of the playground but if I want her to walk quickly from the car to the school she is suddenly weak and feeble.
Touche Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Haha "I have to get used to the light." That's a good one. They are very delicate sometimes, aren't they. Very fragile. I have seen my daughter do full speed laps around the perimeter of the playground but if I want her to walk quickly from the car to the school she is suddenly weak and feeble. You're cracking me up over here! It's all SO true! Yep, when it's something they really want to do they can really hustle! And what about xmas or channukah gift time? They sure can jump out of bed fast at the crack of dawn! Suddenly the light or needing to stretch is not an issue...hmmm:laugh:
whichwayisup Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 If your spouse had to be up MUCH earlier than you would you get up with them? Hell no! Neither of us are breakfast people, unless it's the weekend or up at the cottage. I cook, do the coffee thing (he can't do either very well) but he does clean up the dishes afterwards. Once in a while I'll do bacon and french toast, but usually it's get your own breakfast... Work days he just showers and goes, catches a snack and coffee at work, but I do pack a little snack/lunch for him the night before. Though, chances of him remembering to put it in his briefcase is another story!
alphamale Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 I know someone who actually gets up at 4 am with her boyfrind to help him get ready for work and then she goes back to bed till it's time for her to get ready for work. once they get married that'll come to a quick end
IpAncA Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Son: Just one more minute PLEASE, Mom! Me: NO, NOW! Son: But I have to stretch for awhile. Me: Well stretch while you're getting dressed. Son: I have to get used to the light before I get up or I'll fall And on and on and on and on and on and on it goes! Sheesh! Ugh..hate that morning routine! Lol!! That funny. Never heard those before. The way that my dad used to get us up was come in, open the window, take the pillows, turn the fan on, and take the covers off and throw them on the floor. That really used to piss me off. Sometimes with my brother though he would just flip him off the mattress. :laugh: That will get you up everytime.
Touche Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Yeah, once we women get our hooks into our men and get married we stop doing anything for them. We expect them to bring home the bacon and leave us the hell alone! :rolleyes:
alphamale Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Yeah, once we women get our hooks into our men and get married we stop doing anything for them. We expect them to bring home the bacon and leave us the hell alone! :rolleyes: thats pretty true and you forgot about the 50lbs the wife gains soon as she has the ring...oh and the sudden loss of interest in sex
Pyro Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Come on Touche, you know better than to disagree with the guy who is always correct when it comes to giving advice or posting about women.
Storyrider Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Lol!! That funny. Never heard those before. The way that my dad used to get us up was come in, open the window, take the pillows, turn the fan on, and take the covers off and throw them on the floor. That really used to piss me off. Sometimes with my brother though he would just flip him off the mattress. :laugh: That will get you up everytime. Now that sounds familiar from my childhood! Did we have the same dad? Also, my dad's shower was right on the other side of the wall from my brother's bed. While Dad was showering he would pound on the shower wall and bellow for my brother to wake up. (You could also hear him hawking and spitting up phlegm as was his morning shower routine.)
Touche Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 thats pretty true and you forgot about the 50lbs the wife gains soon as she has the ring...oh and the sudden loss of interest in sex Ha ha! That hasn't been MY experience at all..hell, I'm trying to GAIN weight! Sudden loss of interest in sex? Uhm..hardly. But it's only been 12 years together so maybe that "sudden loss" just hasn't happened yet?
Touche Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Come on Touche, you know better than to disagree with the guy who is always correct when it comes to giving advice or posting about women. Know better? Hey, I'm just a dumb woman. What do I know?
Pyro Posted December 10, 2006 Posted December 10, 2006 Know better? Hey, I'm just a dumb woman. What do I know? Thats right. You better be in that kitchen cleaning. Don't make me have to beat you because as a dominant and masculine man, it is totally acceptable.
Touche Posted December 11, 2006 Posted December 11, 2006 Thats right. You better be in that kitchen cleaning. Don't make me have to beat you because as a dominant and masculine man, it is totally acceptable. Yes, masser..I'll get right on it. After all you are the king of the castle! You made me laugh Rid! My H talks like that as a joke sometimes (or IS it a joke? )
IpAncA Posted December 11, 2006 Posted December 11, 2006 Now that sounds familiar from my childhood! Did we have the same dad? Also, my dad's shower was right on the other side of the wall from my brother's bed. While Dad was showering he would pound on the shower wall and bellow for my brother to wake up. (You could also hear him hawking and spitting up phlegm as was his morning shower routine.) Lol!! We got the pounding too. The furthest he ever went was to take my brothers walkies and put one next to him just out of his reach and talk to him from the other room. :laugh:
Storyrider Posted December 11, 2006 Posted December 11, 2006 Lol!! We got the pounding too. The furthest he ever went was to take my brothers walkies and put one next to him just out of his reach and talk to him from the other room. :laugh: Oh, my brother used a variation on that--he eavesdropped on my parents' arguments by turning on the built-in 1970s intercoms we had in our walls. He would turn the volume up and let our friends listen in the kitchen while Mom and Dad argued in the bedroom. (I know, off topic. Sorry.)
InspectHerGadget Posted December 11, 2006 Posted December 11, 2006 If getting up to "help them get ready" means sex.. for sure! Ha ha ha. I wouldn't wake up to help them get ready, like you said, they don't need that. But i would wake up to be with them.
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